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Subject: Board layout with freeware CAD EAGLE - how to fill a polygon

From: "alan00463" <alan00463@...>
Date: 2006-03-09

I completed my schematic capture with the freeware version of EAGLE
and have begun board layout. I am enjoying it, although I still have
to learn which layers correspond to the physical layers on the PCB.
I am just keeping all my traces in the red layer. I think that
corresponds to the copper trace side of the board.

Now I am trying to figure out how to make a copper-filled polygon in
the red layer. I figured out how to make a closed polygonal figure
with the trace command.

But my polygons aren't filled. They're hollow. Or is that just
the way they look on the computer screen?

I looked in the HELP. Apparently I have to set the 'fill mode' to
SOLID for this operation. How do I do that? Also, how do I set
the line width for this operation?

Alan